One time, I was smoking a cigarette in my car, outside of my house. A cop pulled up behind me and blasted their lights. They asked me a ton of questions, most of which I refused to answer. I gave them ID which had my FUCKING address, and they still said, "You ain't from around here are you?". Mother fucker, you don't even live in this zipcode. You are at MY address. It was a Pacific beach surfing sticker and a Bernie sticker. They also told me to take them off. They went off in a pout, and the deputy told me they were just training the newbie. To what, profile people?
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This is an example of resistance as culture. It might be a small act but it demonstrates the point.
I think that's something that could work. Things like fashion to mess with facial recognition. Movies or tasks to mess with our algorithms. Distracting facsists with a flag. Culturally, capitalism feeds on the creativity of leftists type people and always has done. We can't feed it anti-capitalism because that just feeds it. So, we have to make fucking with the machine the culture itself and offer something they never can: warmth, community and authenticity.
It's the little things that really add up.
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add a Mexican flag to your vehicle
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cover your face with a wide brimmed hat and mask
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wear t-shirts with faces of Mexican people on it to mess with facial recognition
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telephone the ice hotline and report illegals hanging out at a local business, give them the address of a police station or (r) senators office
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film every interaction you see and upload it to social media
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follow ICE vehicles back to their depots, then follow the agents home and make a note of their address
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send printed covertly taken photos of their spouses, parents, and children along with a boxcutter to their office
Just little things we can do as a community.
Jfc god forbid you have a flag of another country. How dare you like anything about another country aside from America. Fucking fascists.
I guess a German flag from a specific time frame would do for them as well.
Land of the free
Italian Flags look identical to Mexican Flags from a distance.
Just putting this out there, for anyone who wants to experience Italian Discrimination firsthand.
The correct answer to "Why the sticker?" is "Why the fascism?"
I liked her answer because she can continue to waste their time instead of being targeted for harassment.
If they are enjoying it, it's not a waste.
That ain't gonna happen though, they're only going to keep ramping up the fascism. Might as well innocently troll them.
Wtf did you just say about my view?!
I would also accept “Because this is America” to hammer it home
Correct. She chose cowardice.
Option 1: Tell them you did it to waste their time. Outcome: You've wasted their time, and you caught a charge for wasting police time, obstruction, or whatever it is they call it there for your trouble.
Option 2: Plead ignorance. Outcome: You've wasted exactly the same amount of their time, plus you lied to the police, and you've faced no consequences for it.
Picking option 1 isn't brave, it's just stupid.
Yeah, let’s see how brave you are when you’ve got facists in your face.
Hint: you’ll probably piss yourself.
Something something 2A
In a Rambo movie, its cool as hell.
IRL, I've got a few WW2-era relatives who will tell you how fucking hard it is to take a life for the first time. Even setting aside the consequences of doing what is going to be immediately flagged as first degree murder, it cannot be properly expressed how horrible the act of killing another person is for the human soul.
the first rambo movie is quite literally about what that shit does to a mfer
This is the difference between someone who wants to use their gun defensively and someone who just wants an excuse to murder people.
You don't unholster your gun unless you're prepared to take a life. You pray you never have to.
But there are just too many people who are thirsty to take a life and that should worry all of us.
Even hunting takes something out of you. It's a feeling not like another to take a life, and not a good feeling at all.
Something tells me you've never been shot at. It's not just a videogame.
You absolute nunce do you think a large armed group of humans will passively sit and be shot at and not return fire
The context is you sound like a child who has no idea of the social political or mental consequences what they are talking about. Adults are trying to tell you that your bravado is foolish and that your casual dehumanization of your political enemies is the exact outcome they want. Fuck your juvenile accelerationism.
There are ways to stand up as a community and lock arms defensively. You are advocating for offensive actions. That will merit immediate harsh reprisals towards you and anyone that holds tangentially related political beliefs.
Do not confuse me for someone saying don't fight back,
And pray do tell o Messiah from the highmount. What am I failing to comprehend? You want to shoot fascists and think that it will make your pee pee hard and feel good.
Has it ever crossed your mind that the answer to hate isn't more hate?
You're not planning for a viable future you're living afraid and in the moment.
And what makes you different than the fascists you hate at that point?
What you may have missed in your upbringing is that people that do bad things do not think of themselves as bad people. They think of themselves as selfless heroes working for the common good.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbarous-wastes
And what makes you different than the fascists you hate at that point?
What you may have missed in your upbringing is that people that do bad things do not think of themselves as bad people. They think of themselves as selfless heroes working for the common good.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbarous-wastes
Oftentimes the truth is far messier bloodier and dirtier than clean black and white divides. For instance your penchance for authoritarian action puts you closer to their camp than mine. I'm sure you'd make a wonderfuly self content beefstake Nazi.
The actual problem isn't the fascists on the streets. It's the the fascists in the banks and Congress and the idiots like you feeding the reinforcement loop.
There's a reason why John fucking Brown is the real Jesus Christ. He'd fucking blow up the damn white house at this point.
But you do get to make a horcrux and become immortal.
Comedy aside, well said.
I mean, "paranoid geriatric fascist serial killer performs home invasion to attempt to murder a baby" describes a JK Rowling character and your choice of IDF or ICE officer equally well.
Man I still don't understand how horcruxs were supposed to work
Um, where else did you get your original definition of a horcrux?
Right. The vague concept existed before in many different forms. She put hircruxes in her books and made them a thing that people understood. I'm not saying she's a great writer, but she clearly appealed to a lot of people with her writing, and not just kids. Her stories at least had decent morals. I'm not defending any of her anti-trans crap, but her Harry Potter fiction is a separate thing.
"What sticker?"
Play it super dumb like you have no idea wtf they're even talking about.
"I like Italian food assholes!!"
I am definitely stealing 'white as a hotel towel' to refer to myself and other mayonaise-complexioned people, that's incredible, hahaha!
All fun and games until they throw her in a cage. I hate to break it to you, when ICE is kidnapping people, they aren't checking your documents first. They're just disappearing you to the back of the van. If they happen to get a few citizens too, well that's just collateral damage.
One can hope it would result in a massive lawsuit, public outrage, and change. My bet is that it doesn't even make headlines, Faux News slanders the woman for being an "immigrant sympathizer" and the Trump administration tries to strip her citizenship for aiding and abetting enemies of the state (you know Jesus who pays his taxes and picks fruit seasonally in Arizona).
Looks like you struck a nerve with the bots lol
Congrats, you've pissed off the "not voting for Harris was right because she supported Israel" crowd that seems to ignore that Trump is a literal fan of genocide. Actually I think the person who replied to you and is likely going to have their comment removed by mods soon is the same person who replies to a couple of my old comments occasionally telling me to die essentially.
I'd buy you a beer if I ever see you, if I knew who you are lol
What they hell did they say or do???! Is there not a comment cool down on Lemmy???
I've never seen that many nuked comments the heck. If they're not a bot thru need professional help
Was basically implying that OP voted for genocide (the talking point is that voting for Harris meant voting for genocide) and now others voted to genocide him instead (Trump and his Latino genocide in the US) and that he hopes OP gets thrown in a van because that would be karma
Dude keeps leaving similar comments at me too after I commented that anyone who refrained from voting for Harris because of the genocide is an idiot because Trump supports the same genocide and more. First time I ever came to Lemmy to find over 100 replies in my inbox lol
Like, just copied and pasted the same comment over and over until they got banned?
Usually it's been a single comment. This time there were 100+ posted at once. Think it was done automatically rather than copy-pasted manually. Comment style very much seems like the same person each time though, and they've been banned by the time I get online and see the comments each time lol
I partially agree with you, but I also believe in the undefeatable power of white woman tears.
Cute, and dangerous, to think the fascists wont put you on the bus anyway .
United States should change its name to "State"
Fascist States of America.
Hmm. Yeah, you're right. I'm just being redundant.
Spelled with a double S.
I'm a white hotel towel Mexican
Always thought it was strange to mark "White, Hispanic" on everything because that was an option always growing up. Like you all really do need to know my skin color don't you.
If you didn't know my last name you'd never guess I wasn't "American"
Some people even secretly say that Spanish was invented by white people
If I recall correctly, it's actually a throw back to the American Mexican war, when the war ended one of the terms of the treaty was that Hispanics would legally be white, and thus safe from things like slavery. So later when the government census wanted to know they invented "white, Hispanic".
I get told all the time I'm not Hispanic because I'm white.
Its not my fault a white Brit knocked up my Costa Rican grandma. And my grandma certainly cultured me while she was alive.
So I just say I'm a white Hispanic to clear the confusion.
I'm half Mexican half Finnish. Strange mix. Pure white.
I understand the hardship
Random people do not think my father is my father.
I've been stopped multiple times by police walking with him to make sure I was okay when I was a kid. All good, just walking around the neighborhood with my dad lol.
Edit: It's also funny growing up people asking me who our gardener was. Also my dad.


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